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Deans of the three Boston medical schools agreed yesterday that this expansion is the best solution for the nation's needs. But all three, Dr. George P. Berry of Harvard, Dr. James M. Faulkner of Boston University, and Dr. Dwight O'Hara of Tufts, cautioned against sacrificing the quality of instruction...
...trying to demolish the attempts of the "National Council Against Conscription" (which incidentally includes on its Board such men as Harry Emerson Fosdick, William Faulkner, Albert Einstein, the late Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Louis Bromfield, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr.), your editorial does not show us one positive contribution of UMS. As The Christian Century has pointed out, UMS would reduce both the size and the effectiveness of the army; thus even General MacArthur has advised against passing a UMT measure under the stress of the "emergency" situation today...
...want to repeat that the story was originally written as an eclectic exercise: examination should reveal the slight influence of Joyce and Faulkner and other Lawrence writings. There was no intention to publish it as it was first written. There was never any intention of deception: the story lies quite outside my main body of writing. I certainly made a serious mistake in not checking the Lawrence story to make sure I had cut out these passages. And the CRIMSON has certainly exacted full payment for this mistake...
...pass up such masterpieces as Sherwood Anderson's Triumph of the Egg and Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, which somehow never made the yearly collections. Some master storytellers, among them Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara, do not appear, while William Faulkner is represented by a mediocre sketch...
...Midwest showed signs of vigor. Hamlin Garland had begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...